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The Poet’s Disease

I’ve been reading poetry lately and am distressed by how disconnected the poets I’m reading seem to be. (I originally wrote the word ‘are’ as opposed to ‘seem to be,’ because, frankly, I know they are, that they don’t just seem to be.  The problem I think is that you probably don’t know that they are, as opposed to seem to be, and, possibly don’t even know or care that they seem...
Date: 11 Apr 2012 | 2 Comments | 


A Practical, A Particle, A Bloglet – Do You Think Before You Write?

It is thought that writers think through what they are about to write, before they write it, or perhaps better said, in order to write it.  That there is a moving logic to the practice of writing, or should be. And I am sure some writers do. But, for the life of me, I have never been able to do that very well. And the reason I suppose I haven’t (and why, therefore - and perhaps - my writing...
Date: 04 Apr 2012 | 1 Comment | 


A Serious Man – Keeping Promises

I’m fortunate in that I have an extraordinary assistant who reminds me every chance she can get that it’s time for me to write.  If she didn’t remind me, I would forget.  There is usually so much going on in my mind and therefore in my life – just like you I imagine – that keeping on point is rarely the foremost thing in my mind. My wife, Luz Delia, often comes to me to ask if I have...
Date: 30 Dec 2011 | 0 Comment | 


The Illusion, The Confusion

I received a tweet from a gentleman in Uganda yesterday (@SocEntAfrica), telling me that his Center has The E-Myth Revisited in it, and wishing me well.  Along with the tweet was his Center’s address, and all the blogs he and or they have written over time. One was about a young girl at the age of 13, who has taken it upon herself to heal the wounds of their community, children infected with...
Date: 28 Dec 2011 | 3 Comments | 


The Giant Sucking Sound of the Word, Leadership

I was asked this morning to perhaps speak at a global conference for leadership at the end of 2012 by a very interesting guy. He made it sound so compelling that I went to the website he linked me to, to watch the video on it of 2011’s Global Conference, and naturally was immediately engaged by a most electrifying panoply of sounds and words and music and passion, both of the speakers, and of the audience,...
Date: 23 Dec 2011 | 0 Comment | 


On The Personal Side™ | And why does anything matter…

Wanted to get a running start on the day, knowing I would have to find the time and the energy to move my fingers, as I am doing right now, to talk to you, about a subject which comes calling to me, more and more often, the older I get, which is, why does anything matter, yes, why, when time seems to be always running out, when words seem to always be escaping me, when the energy I have always, since...
Date: 27 Nov 2011 | 1 Comment | 


On The Personal Side™

Well yes, and then some more… Well, yes, these little dribblings of mine, these Particles, these tacos, these sometimes smoldering, oftentimes ruminating little snippets of personal dross, are, indeed personal! Which is to say, do come from that malingering soft side of the persona, whose life is made up, as is yours, of floss and dross, and random drum beats, that riddle the mind with their...
Date: 26 Nov 2011 | 1 Comment | 


On The Personal Side™

Near the Day for Saying Thanks By Michael E. Gerber   Yes, it is close here in these United States to celebrate the day we call Thanksgiving.  And although countless numbers of you are in so many places throughout the world, I still believe today is near the day for saying thanks. So, thank you first of all for meeting with me, for reading what I write to you, for listening to my voice,...
Date: 21 Nov 2011 | 0 Comment |